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      Martin Pitt: Revisiting Google Cloud Performance for KVM-based CI

      news.movim.eu / PlanetGnome • 4 days ago

    Summary from 2022 Back then, I evaluated Google Cloud Platform for running Cockpit’s integration tests. Nested virtualization on GCE was way too slow, crashy, and unreliable for our workload. Tests that ran in 35-45 minutes on bare metal (my laptop) took over 2 hours with 15 failures, timeouts, and crashes. The nested KVM simply wasn’t performant enough. On today’s Day of Learning, I gave this another shot, and was pleasantly surprised.